Something that’s "sapid" (SAP-id) – from the Latin for "to taste" – has a strong, pleasant flavor.
Example (as used by David William Cheever in The Atlantic): "Chemistry can concentrate the sapid and odorous elements of the peach and the bitter almond into a transparent fluid."
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